Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Background

Dr. Nakiya Naomi Showell is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is a board-certified general pediatrician and attending physician in the Johns Hopkins Harriet Lane Clinic.

Dr. Showell received her undergraduate degree from Bryn Mawr College. She earned her M.D. from Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and then completed her residency in pediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 2010. Following the completion of her residency, Dr. Showell earned her masters of public health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2013, Dr. Showell completed a fellowship in General Academic Pediatrics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In the same year she joined the faculty in the Johns Hopkins Department of Pediatrics.

Dr. Showell is dedicated to research focused on eliminating child obesity disparities, with the goal to develop and implement effective, multi-level obesity interventions that address obesity disparities among low-income and minority children. To further her research agenda, Dr. Showell was awarded a Johns Hopkins KL2 Mentored Career Development Award in 2014.

In addition to being engaged in active programs of research and clinical activities in the Johns Hopkins Harriet Lane Clinic, Dr. Showell serves on the Pediatric Diversity Council and Intern Selection Committee for the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Residency Program.

Departments / Divisions

Centers & Institutes

Education

Degrees

MD, Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (2007)

Board Certifications

American Board of Pediatrics / Pediatrics-General
(2010, 2016)

Research & Publications

Research Summary

Dr. Showell is dedicated to research focused on eliminating child obesity disparities. Specifically, her overarching goal is to conduct research that leads to the development and implementation of effective multi-level obesity interventions that address obesity disparities among low-income and minority children.

Dr. Showell has served as the project director of a mixed-methods study examining how neighborhood-level factors interact with low- income racial and ethnic minority parents' culture and personal preferences to influence child diet and physical activity behaviors. Additionally, she has served as a co-investigator on an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-funded systematic literature review on the comparative effectiveness of child obesity interventions and has published the findings of her focused review of home-based obesity interventions.